Kasich’s selection would have to run in November for a chance to complete the term, which goes
through 2018.

Judicial vacancies are filled by the governor — in this case, a Republican.

Doug Preisse, the county GOP chairman, said party leaders submitted the recommendations to
Kasich’s office yesterday.

The governor is not required to appoint someone recommended by the party, but Kasich relied on
lists from the party in filling three judicial vacancies in the county last year and one this
year.

Cassone, 35, served as staff attorney for Preisse’s sister, Juvenile and Domestic Relations
Judge Dana S. Preisse, from November 2005 to October 2006.

Cassone has been a lawyer in private practice since October 2006, doing 90 percent of her
practice in domestic-relations and juvenile law, according to the website for the law firm where
she works, Winkler & Rovito.

McCarthy, 45, has been with the prosecutor’s office since 2000, for the past six years in the
drug-prosecution unit. He is a member of the Ohio Army National Guard, where he has served as a
staff judge advocate.

McNeil Danish, 50, was a magistrate for the court from April 1994 to April 1995. She was an
assistant deputy legal counsel for then-Gov. George V. Voinovich, chief legal counsel for the Ohio
Department of Commerce and chief of the civil-rights section of the Ohio attorney general’s office.
She is in private practice with the law firm Crabbe, Brown & James.